February is not my favorite month for eating local. I’ve finished all my frozen strawberries. I’m on the last jar of peach salsa. I have plenty of canned tomatoes but no more spaghetti sauce. I’ve got frozen raspberries — more than I ever want. Oh, there’s still plenty of jam, but less of the coveted strawberry than I’d like. I have a few cloves of the fabulous garlic I bought at the Garlic Festival in August. But it’s sparse around here for local food….
It’s as if my pantry is going bare.
I think there must be a better way to plan for what I would like to have to sustain me over the winter. Each year, I stash away more. But I am too diverse. If I only made spaghetti sauce, peach salsa and strawberries, I think I’d be happy until summer. And perhaps a freezer chest to give me the space to keep all those strawberries.
Half way through February is really a great time to start planning for spring. And there’s a lot of interesting things coming up in Eden Prairie this spring. (see next post)
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